Healthy Living: Mike Anderson

warm-hearted viewers this is healthy living on supreme master television today we are honored to feature Mike Anderson author of the book the rave diet and lifestyle on our program the term raveVE is an acronym, which stands for No Refined Foods, No Animal Foods, No Vegetable Oils, and No Exceptions and Exercise. He is also the producer of three superb films on health and eating, Healing Cancer from Inside Out, Eight Minutes, and Eating. Mr. Anderson's works examine the overwhelming evidence that following a plant-based diet leads to a life of overall excellent health my father died of cancer my stepfather died of heart disease my mother has severe osteoporosis my sister-in-law is diabetic a friend of mine was just diagnosed with breast cancer my neighbors on heart medicines and cholesterol-lowering drugs all this sound familiar what's not so familiar is that these health problems were caused by eating habits in fact eating is the biggest cause of disease disabilities and death in the US today and according to the Surgeon General eating kills two out of three Americans every year Mike Anderson during his early 50s decided it was an appropriate point in his life to take some time for introspection he began to read such books as the acclaimed diet for a new America by vegan meaning an animal free diet advocate John Robbins from his readings here is what he concluded my guys I've stumbled on this big secret that you can reverse diseases with simple changes in diet and to me I'd never heard this before of course my field is in computers and so I you know no reason for me to hear about it but I said my god this be headline news. I should be knowing about this instead of all the drug discoveries and everything, because you can reverse heart disease, for example, with simple changes in diet. You can reverse type 2 diabetes in one or two weeks very easily with just simple diet. You can reverse cancers. You can reverse virtually any degenerative disease and that's what's killing 80% of the population right now is degenerative diseases an animal-based diet can lead to serious and fatal illnesses when people in other parts of the world abandon their traditional plant-based diets and start eating like Americans they start dying like Americans the pattern is not only obvious but totally predictable no matter where you look when people adopt animal-based diets heart disease and cancer suddenly become their biggest killers this is now happening throughout the world in countries like Japan and China where they're replacing rice and vegetables with meat and dairy products and American eating diseases are spreading like wildfire the one thing an animal-based diet does best is kill people it does this by clogging arteries and restricting the flow of blood and oxygen throughout the body deprive the heart of oxygen you get a heart attack deprive the brain of oxygen you get a stroke deprive your tissues and cells of oxygen and you set up the underlying cause of all cancers if we make our diet free of animal products diseases will disappear virtually all of heart disease is caused by diet and now heart disease or cardiovascular disease, that means clogged blood vessels throughout the body. Heart disease is just one subset of cardiovascular disease. Type 2 diabetes, 100% caused by diet. 100%. And you can, how do we know this? We can reverse it with diet, and very easy. It's been shown time and time again. It's been proven. Now, there is a cure for diabetes. I'm here to tell you. Give me any diabetic, and I will reverse it. Get them off insulin. You can completely heal diabetes, and very, very quickly. In most cases, five to seven days. We have a few cases that are particularly severe might take two weeks we find in five to seven days someone with type 2 diabetes if they eat a 100% plant-based diet they're no longer on insulin I haven't seen that not happen osteoporosis is another one. Our acidic diet essentially uses up the calcium in our bones. That results in osteoporosis. Cancer is another one. We shouldn't have any cancer. Our bodies are capable of handling toxins in the environment. Genetics only accounts for a couple percent, even genetics can can be trumped by diet bad genes don't express themselves in other words with a good diet with a bad diet they're gonna come out and play when we return mister Anderson will share more with us about the medical evidence that shows the tremendous advantages of keeping a vegan diet you are watching supreme master television Welcome Welcome back to Healthy Living for our discussion with author and film producer Mike Anderson on how our dietary choices are so crucial to preventing and reversing illnesses. Here, Mr. Anderson discusses the fact that prominent members of the medical community support the vegan diet for treating heart disease. Two doctors have estimated that, you know, 75 to 85 percent of the people in the hospital are there because of their diets. You know, you've got the broken arms and car accidents and that sort of thing. But the vast majority are there because of the diet. Dean Ornish, for example, he did the foundation study for reversing heart disease, and it was published in peer-reviewed journals, and, you know, he is very, very credible. John McDougall is another one. Joel Fuhrman is another one. Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn from the Cleveland Clinic, he's another one. He has the longest heart disease reversal study ever out there. But he is reversing heart disease with diet and eating. I interviewed Neil Pinckney. He was scheduled for emergency bypass operation. And what he did was he walked away from it. knew what that involved and what he did he set out to discover on his own how to reverse his heart disease he went on the internet he finally discovered dr. Dean Ornish in his book what happened with him is amazing because he couldn't walk 200 feet without experiencing severe angina. And within two weeks after changing his diet, the angina was gone, almost all gone. Within two months, it was completely gone. Seven months later, he was running in an 8.5-mile marathon and finished in the middle of the pack. Now, here's a guy scheduled for emergency bypass surgery. Seven months later, he's in a marathon. That, no drug in existence. No operation can do that. Bypasses are a temporary fix. Angioplasty is a temporary fix. Statin drugs, they just allow you to continue living with the disease. They don't cure it. Diet is the only cure for that. And so, I was stunned. I wanted to get something out to help promote the message mike anderson believes that to truly enjoy optimum health one must be a healthy vegan this means avoiding refined foods as well bad food means food that has too much saturated fat that has cholesterol in it it, that has a lot of toxins in it, is contaminated. When you look at our beef supply, for example, or any animal supply, they are eating crops that are heavy with pesticides. In fact, crops destined to be fed to cattle, there are virtually no regulations on the pesticides they can spray on the crops. So, in fact, 95% of the pesticide intake comes from animal foods that we eat. Bad foods are refined foods, your white bread, the refined sugar with their simple sugars, but vegetable oils, too, because it's a refined food. you don't see vegetable oil cans hanging off trees or anything like that many misconceptions surround the consumption of fish what would you say to people who think okay fish doesn't have like fats and you know cholesterol and that what would you say to them well fish does have fat it does have cholesterol you look at your salmon people are eating fish because of omega-3s well where the omega-3s come from originally the algae that they eat off plant foods have plenty of omega-3s fish you know the average salmon is 60 fat it's full of cholesterol shrimp is the highest amount of cholesterol per calorie of any animal on the planet yeah it's no different it just has a fin instead of a hoof you know that's that's about the only difference between a fish and a cow governments definitely have a vital role to play in changing the way people eat the problem to me is all of these bad foods are subsidized sugar industry subsidized meat and dairy subsidized every bad food is has heavy heavy subsidies behind it we're talking billions tens of billions of dollars worth of subsidies to prop them up now these same people who run these industries are all saying oh oh, I like the free enterprise system and no government interference. We want a free market. Well, I agree with them. Let's have a free market. Let's get rid of the subsidies. Altogether, the health of the nation will improve 1,000% because of it. Milk and dairy will be too expensive. Sugar will be too expensive. All of these are political subsidies going in to artificially support that market. So I'm in favor of free markets. Let them be free, and our health will improve. That's, to me, the bottom line, because anyone will tell you, who knows, there's a direct connection between what we're eating and the diseases we're getting. The linchpin behind that is the subsidies that allow this food to be so cheap. And that's why people are eating so much. What do you think the role could be in this? What could the governments do to improve the nation's health and change our diets? Just get rid of the subsidies. That'll do it overnight. Let the market take care of it remember to join us next monday for the second segment of our interview with author and film producer Mike Anderson on the virtues of the plant-based diet. Our esteemed viewers, it was very much a pleasure to have you join us today for this edition of Healthy Living. Up next is science and spirituality after noteworthy news here on Supreme Master Television. May God's grace be with you.